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Chapter 4 Energy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Energy | The ability to do or work or cause changes. |
| Kinetic Energy | The energy an object has due to its motion. |
| Potential Energy | Energy that related to an object. |
| Gravitational Energy | Potential energy related to an object's height. |
| Elastic Energy | Is the energy associated with object that can be compresses or stretched. |
| mechanical energy | The form of energy associated with motion,or shape of an object. |
| nuclear energy | The potential energy stored in the nucleus of an atom. |
| thermal energy | The total kinetic energy of a particle in an object. |
| electric energy | The energy of electric charges. |
| electromagnetic energy | Is the light you see is one type of electromagnetic energy. |
| chemical energy | Chemical energy is in the food you eat in the matches you use to light a candle and even in the cell of your body. |
| energy transfirmation | a change from one form of energy to another |
| law of conservation of energy | states that when one form of energy is transferred to anther no energy lost in process |
| headland | is a part of the shore that sticks out into the ocaen |
| beach | is an area of wave -washed sediment along a coast |
| longshore drift | when sediment moves down a beach current |
| spit | one result of a long shore drift |
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